The memories which come to us through music are not accompanied by any regrets; for a moment music gives us back the pleasures it retraces, and we fe….
The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life..
Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion..
Music must serve a purpose; it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity..
I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing..
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles..
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end..
Without music, life is a journey through a desert..
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral..
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents..
Music causes us to think eloquently..
Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun..
Music is the poor man's Parnassus..
I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and….
Only the drum is confident, it thinks the world has not changed.
Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear..
Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill prov….
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth..
Richard Wagner commenting on the music of Ludvig Van Beethoven: He was a Titan, wrestling with the Gods..
Never play a thing the same way twice..
When I go to the Gate, I'll play a duet with Gabriel. Yeah, we'll play 'Sleepy Time Down South' and 'Hello, Dolly!.' Then he can blow a couple that h….